This is a project developed in my home region Trentino-South Tyrol (north of Italy) and tells about my search for the image of the wolf in the landscape. The presence of this animal is a local topic and reality subjected to constant studies of monitoring and control to prevent or safeguard the farming works on the mountain pastures. Characterized by three different languages and by lifestyles divided by city and mountain landscape, the South Tyrollean context shows often contrasts of identities and common goals. 

The wolf becomes, therefore, to me an idea and an image of trust to deepen, in order to initiate dialogues on access and familiarity for diversity. To develop this work I interviewed and got in contact with different local and professional figures that deal with the topic of the wolf, such as wildlife technicians, farmers, mountain hut hoteliers, hunters, sheep breeders, historians, forest guards and natural park's members

The project has been thought as a book combining testimonies and images and comes together with a short essay about the topic of stigma within a territory and within the human mind. The images on this website containing paintings and black and white drawings have been collected from historical books and have the following references: 

Shepherd dog with toothed collar - Cloister of the Cathedral of Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol IT; Hook for catching the wolf, Tyrol; Brick wolf pit on Nördersberg near Schlanders, South Tyrol;Medieval wolf tang with anchor in double sickle shape; Photograph of wolf pit on Nördersberg near Schlanders, South Tyrol.

This is a project developed in my home region Trentino-South Tyrol (north of Italy) and tells about my search for the image of the wolf in the landscape. The presence of this animal is a local topic and reality subjected to constant studies of monitoring and control to prevent or safeguard the farming works on the mountain pastures. Characterized by three different languages and by lifestyles divided by city and mountain landscape, the South Tyrollean context shows often contrasts of identities and common goals. 

 The wolf becomes, therefore, to me an idea and an image of trust to deepen, in order to initiate dialogues on access and familiarity for diversity. To develop this work I interviewed and got in contact with different local and professional figures that deal with the topic of the wolf, such as wildlife technicians, farmers, mountain hut hoteliers, hunters, sheep breeders, historians, forest guards and natural park's members. 

The project has been thought as a book combining testimonies and images and comes together with a short essay about the topic of stigma within a territory and within the human mind. The images on this website containing paintings and black and white drawings have been collected from historical books and have the following references: 

Shepherd dog with toothed collar - Cloister of the Cathedral of Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol IT; Hook for catching the wolf, Tyrol; Brick wolf pit on Nördersberg near Schlanders, South Tyrol; Medieval wolf tang with anchor in double sickle shape; Photograph of wolf pit on Nördersberg near Schlanders, South Tyrol.